Pakistan and the Taliban on Thursday agreed on the need for “earliest resumption” of stalled Afghan peace talks with the U.S. in a bid to end the 18-year-long conflict in Afghanistan, according to a Pakistani Foreign Ministry statement. The agreement came during a meeting between the...

North Korea announced Thursday that its missile test the previous day involved a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). Pyongyang's state-run KCNA news agency claimed the successful launch "ushered in a new phase in containing the outside forces' threat." "The...

Hong Kong demonstrators clashed with police into the early hours of Thursday, throwing petrol bombs and venting their anger over the shooting of a teenager earlier in the week, as months of anti-government protests showed no sign of letting up. Police urged the government to impose curfews...

The British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said 25 flights are scheduled to fly Thursday to return another 5’000 people to the United Kingdom in the tenth day of the repatriation operation following the collapse of travel group Thomas Cook. A total of 19’000 more customers are poised to...